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Arainach 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity

A local maximum by definition cannot be a global minimum. A local maximum has to be higher than things around it, which are part of the global space.

lazide 8 months ago [–]

Fair point. However, the local maximum doesn’t have to be far from the global minimum.

If the global maximum is 10, minimum is 1, you could easily end up in a region with local maximum 2, minimum 1.

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